Laundry and Flying!

After being here almost two weeks and even longer then that travelling, we had a ton of laundry. Luckily, we have a laundromat just down the street from our house so we were able to take it there to get cleaned. I bet it looks funny watching two adults followed by their kids and two huge suitcases walking down the street. It's not a laundry mat like back home where you actually do the washing but more like a dry cleaners where you drop it off and pick it back up. For two large suitcases we only paid $12, crazy! And that included washing, drying, and folding. So cheap but it will be nice to have a place to do our own laundry, so that I can be the one making sure the stains get out.
After taking the laundry we took the kids to a new park to play, they had lots of fun though it was still quite muddy from the rain the previous days. We got to see some cows too on our walk to the park. They are often brought to the rivers to drink the water and eat the green grass by the edges. It's funny to be walking in a residential area and see a person leading their cow to the river. We have even seen goats, chickens and many dogs. You never know what you might see when talking a walk to the park.
Once we finally made it downtown to CEDI, we did a little internet and then Bolo picked us up to take us to get our police id's for our bank accounts. Once we got there we had to wait for about an hour and then were told that we can't finalize the id's until we are officially registered in the country. So we decided to book our flights to Quito. Remember we did try to do that when we landed in Ecuador and were told we needed to do some stuff first in order to do it but didn't have time before our flight to Cuenca. So we called up Anshy (Bolo's daughter that just got married) as she works for a travel agency here in the city and she was able to book us some flights to Quito. So we will head to Quito next Monday morning and come back on Wednesday night. We hope to get it all done on the Monday but thought we better spend a bit more time there for the just in case. Hopefully, once we are officially registered in the country we will be able to get our id's and bank accounts. We'll keep you updated on that process, however we did find that we can write out cheques here and get them cashed for u.s. dollars (which is the local currency here) for a minimum fee, which for us is great since we can't really get out cash with our regular bank cards. So until we can get those bank accounts, that is a great alternative.